Enzymes involved in starch synthesis in the developing mung bean seed |
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Authors: | JS Tsay WL Kuo CG Kuo |
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Institution: | Asian Vegetable Research and Development Center, P.O. Box 42, Shanhua 741, Taiwan |
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Abstract: | The levels of free sugars, starch and enzymes involved in starch metabolism—sucrose synthetase, UDP and ADP glucose pyrophosphorylase, phosphorylase and starch synthetase—were assayed during seed development of three cultivars of mung bean (Vigna radiata). Free sugars and starch increased with increasing seed weight. Changes in levels of sucrose synthetase, UDP- and ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylases, and phosphorylase were paralleled by changes in starch accumulation. After the maximum activity levels of these enzymes had been reached, maximum activities of soluble starch synthetase and starch granule-bound starch synthetase occurred. There were high activities of sucrose synthetase and phosphorylase at maximum rates of starch accumulation. Thus, starch could be synthesized via the ADP glucose pathway in mung bean seeds. However, phosphorylase may account for the starch accumulation in the early stages of mung bean seed development. |
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Keywords: | Leguminosae sucrose synthetase starch synthetase phosphorylase ADP and UDP glucose pyrophosphorylase soluble sugars content starch content |
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